Debussy / Messiaen - Two Piano Music
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Label: Cedille Records
Cat No: CDR90000119
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 31st August 2010
Contents
Artists
Ursula Oppens (piano)Jerome Lowenthal (piano)
About
Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen, from 1943, was composed in wartime Paris during the German occupation. With an orchestral range of colours and immense dynamic range, it’s a monumental set of seven mystical meditations, most beginning subtly and building to an exhilarating intensity.
Debussy’s En blanc et noir, from 1915, is the composer’s response to World War I. A landmark in the two-piano genre, the three-movement work is notoriously difficult to play.
Ursula Oppens is known for her enduring commitment to integrating new music into regular concert life. She has premiered works by Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski and Charles Wuorinen, to name a few of the eminent modern composers she’s been associated with. She has performed with virtually all of the world’s major orchestras.
Jerome Lowenthal plays with a combination of youthful intensity and eloquence born of life experience. He studied in his native Philadelphia with Olga Samaroff-Stokowski, in New York with William Kapell and Edward Steuermann, and in Paris with Alfred Cortot, while traveling annually to Los Angeles for coachings with Artur Rubinstein. He has appeared as soloist with celebrated conductors of the present and past, and his chamber music collaborators include Itzhak Perlman and the Lark, Avalon and Brentano Quartets.
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